Why does everyone love Spider-Man so much? When “Spider-Man: No Way Home” came out at the end of 2021, it made an insane amount of money ($814 million in the U.S. alone), blasting away any vestige of that era’s comic-book-movie fatigue. I thought the reason for the film’s mind-boggling success was obvious: It had three Spider-Men in it — Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, and the OG Tobey Maguire — and that made it a unique royal-family reunion of spider-veined spandex.
\n\nThere was a perfect storm of happenstance to how that confluence came to be. “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (an infinitely better movie) had come out two years before, and borrowing deeply from the comic books it did a brilliant job of injecting head-spinning multiverse madness into the Spider-Man saga. The makers of “No Way Home” said, in essence, “Let’s do the same thing — only in a pandering, overstuffed, how-many-movie-stars-can-dangle-from-the-end-of-a-web? way.” I thought it was the definition of a one-shot.
\n\nBut “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has rewritten the playbook again. The movie is a solid and well-executed adventure, no more and no less, in which Holland’s Peter Parker and his love, MJ (Zendaya), barely even get to talk (because she…
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